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I noticed when watching the end of the movie when we see inside of other people's heads. In everyone else, with exception to Riley, all the emotion avatars are all the same gender as the physical body they occupy.
Riley's emotional avatars have, as we see, 3 female avatars and 2 male avatars. I was just curious if this means that Riley doesn't completely see herself as female. At the very least, she could be gender fluid.
What does everyone else think?
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That
Is an excellent observation. I was curious a little about that too :D
I know who I am, I am me, and I like me ^^
Transgender, Gamer, Little, Princess, Therian and proud :D
Inside Out
Unfortunately, that has been brought up before, and someone asked Pixar... their answer was we just thought it was funnier that way.
What's In a Name
in the year 2000 Riley was almost equally popular as a boy's name as a girl's. Over the last ten years it has become increasingly more popular as a girl's name and increasingly less popular as a boy's name.
Pixar is very sharp and probably enjoyed the gender flow of the name.
I think Inside Out was one of the best movies of the last few years. It certainly was the best animated movie.
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Gender and Names
"...increasingly more popular as a girl's name and increasingly less popular as a girl's name." I assume you meant less popular as a boy's name. [I notice it's corrected now. I just spotted a typo of my own as well.]
This went to an extreme with the name Madison. The first half of the 20th Century, it was a fairly unpopular boy's name, but then it went off the radar. It was known primarily as one of the US's founding fathers and first presidents, as well as Madison WI, Madison Square Garden, and (of course) Madison Av (the source of all advertising). That last one was used as a joke in the 1984 movie "Splash": the mermaid took it from the "Madison Av" sign, the joke being that it was a silly name for a woman.
Madison reappeared for boys and girls, but shot up in popularity for girls, reaching the top ten baby girls' names in the US by the late 1990s, even becoming the second most popular girl's name for two years. It finally left the top ten in 2015, taking 11th place.
-- Daphne Xu
Riley
I went to https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/, the Social Security Administration's database on baby names. Like Madison in 1984, Riley appeared out of nowhere in 1990 and shot up as a popular girls' name.
What happened in 1990 or 1989 that that gave us Riley as a girl's name?
-- Daphne Xu
Gender of Emotion Avatars
I was thinking it would have been interesting if there was a general mix before and during puberty and finally settling after puberty is completed.